Provide a way to filter variables

[karthiknadig]

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[fabioz]

What exactly needs to be done here?

[karthiknadig]

@rchiodo @DonJayamanne I had created this issue to track adding a way to filter variables for DS while debugging. Do you still need this?

[karthiknadig]

The requirement here is, basically filter out modules, built_ins, functions, and any variable starting with '_'. It should also be configurable via settings.

[fabioz]

@karthiknadig When you mean setting, does this mean that this would be a custom setDebuggerProperty that the VSCode Python extension would call?

When you say "also", does this mean that it's something as launch configuration + setDebuggerProperty?

Related to how to set it, would it be something as: filter: ['module', 'builtin', 'function', 'private']?

[int19h]

microsoft/ptvsd#1621 is related

[int19h]

Not entirely clear to me whether this is still required, given that #127 already separates them into collapsible scopes?

[int19h]

Since we have separate scopes, and they can be individually configured as hidden, it achieves the same result.